Havana says Trump's policy on Cuba doomed to fail

The president announced a revised Cuba policy aimed at stopping the flow of USA cash to the country's military and security services while mai.

"That will impact the Cuban economy negatively, and in that sense there's some leverage. We will not lift sanctions on the Cuban regime until all political prisoners are free, all political parties are legalized and free and supervised elections are scheduled", the President said.

"The problem, say Cubans we talk to, is that the crackdown would also hurt small business owners", Mitchell claimed, "including many women, the very people President Trump says he wants to help".

"Officially, today, they are rejected". That means USA travelers now booked on flights to Cuba in the next few weeks or months could make the trip.

Embassies in Havana and Washington will remain open.

Friday morning, Rubio gave a glimpse into what exactly will be changed saying the president's goal in the changes is to "support the Cuban people by driving USA visitors to small business they own so they can become independent of regime".

Travel brings people and cultures together, so we are excited about the upcoming cruises to Cuba for our guests.

But individual "people-to-people" trips by Americans to Cuba, allowed by Mr Obama for the first time in decades, will again be banned and the USA government will police other trips to ensure travellers are pursuing a "full-time schedule of educational exchange activities". However, in a shift from Obama's approach, Trump said trade and other penalties would stay in place until a long list of prerequisites was met.

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Miami's Cuban-American population, members of which will greet Trump on Friday in the Manuel Artime Theater, have a reputation for diehard anti-communism and an opposition to thawing ties.

In an early morning tweet, he said: "I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!" The senator, who challenged Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, was expected to travel with the president aboard Air Force One and appear with him at Friday's announcement. The new president's action is broadly opposed by American business groups. "Putting America first means exporting what we produce to countries across the globe".

Stopping short of reversal, President Donald Trump planned to announce a revised Cuba policy aimed at halting the flow of USA cash to the country's military and security services while maintaining diplomatic relations.

"The policy centres on the belief that the oppressed Cuban people - rather than the oppressive Castro regime's military and its subsidiaries - should benefit from American engagement with the island", he said. Cruz said he supports President Trump's plan. "You have not betrayed us - you kept your promise". Hard-line exiles agreed with Trump's move to roll back some of the changes by restricting commerce with entities linked to Cuba's military, restoring tougher travel rules and other moves in hopes of forcing Cuba toward democracy.

Mr Trump cast that as a sign the United States still wanted to engage with Cuba in hopes of forging "a much stronger and better path".

"The Cuban government denounces the new measures hardening the blockade that are destined to fail. and that will not achieve their aim of weakening the revolution", Havana said. But I think it's going to be hard for Trump to force change in Cuba or steer more assets to the island's private sector this way.

Following statements by his Cuban-American congressional allies Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., have shown no interest in doing so.

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